Boon v. Bowers
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error from the Circuit Court of De Soto county. Hon. P. T. Scruggs, judge. William H. Bowers, Yictoria D. Bowers, and Mary W. Bowers, (the two last suing by their next friend, W. H. Bowers,) on the 27th of April, A. D. 1854, filed in the court below their complaint against Daniel Boon, under the New Pleading Act of 1850, by which they sought to recover certain lands therein mentioned, and of which they alleged they were the legal owners, and entitled to possession, but…
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IN error from the Circuit Court of De Soto county. Hon. P. T. Scruggs, judge. William H. Bowers, Yictoria D. Bowers, and Mary W. Bowers, (the two last suing by their next friend, W. H. Bowers,) on the 27th of April, A. D. 1854, filed in the court below their complaint against Daniel Boon, under the New Pleading Act of 1850, by which they sought to recover certain lands therein mentioned, and of which they alleged they were the legal owners, and entitled to possession, but that defendant has possession, and illegally withholds the same from them. The defendant Boon appeared and pleaded the…
1Opinion of the CourtFlSHER, J.
This was an action brought under the Pleading Act of 1850, by the plaintiffs below, as heirs at law of one William H. Bowers, deceased, in the Circuit Court of De Soto county, to recover a tract of land in the possession of the defendant.
The questions for consideration, arise out of the action of the court below, rejecting the evidence introduced by the defendant for the purpose of establishing his title to the land in controversy. It appears that at the January session, 1848, of the legislature of this state, a special act was passed authorizing one Israel Dille, who had^qualified as…
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